3 ^aTell your children about it,
Let your children tell their children,
And their children another generation. ‡

4 ^aWhat the chewing¹ locust left, the ^bswarming locust has eaten;
What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten;
And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten. ‡

8 ^aLament like a virgin girded with sackcloth
For ^bthe husband of her youth. ‡

9 ^aThe grain offering and the drink offering
Have been cut off from the house of the Lord;
The priests ^bmourn, who minister to the Lord. ‡